Empirical modeling of policy diffusion in federal states: The dyadic approach

Swiss Political Science Review

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 413-450

  Gilardi, Fabrizio ^a   Füglister, Katharina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Dyadic approach; Event history analysis; Federalism; Health care; Policy diffusion

Indexed keywords

EID: 54749113136     PISSN: 14247755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1662-6370.2008.tb00108.x     Document Type: Article

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